Improvement in machines for sowing fertilizers in drills



C. B. DAVIS.

Fertilizer.

No. 24,542; Patented June 28, 1859.

N.PE|'ERS, PHOIO-LITHOGRAPHER, wasnme'mn. D C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFF CE.

G. B. DAVIS, OF LAXVRENOEBURG, TENNESSEE.

IMPROVEMENT IN MACHINES FOR SOWING FERTILIZERS IN DRILLS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 24,534), dated June 28, 1859.

struction and operation of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 represents a side elevation; Fig. 2, a bottom view.

Letter A represents the hopper. B B are wheels of machine. 0 C are sides of frame. D represents handles. E is the shoe; H, the handle of shoe, which is moved by pins 1) b in wheel B and gives motion to shoe E. F are the slots in which work the bearings of axle-trees G G of wheels B and 13*. The wheels B and B are fastened 011 axle-tree in the middle of frame, as seen in Fig. 2.

The design of said machine is to put lime or any other kind of manure into the ground in the following manner, to wit: A furrow being opened by a horse and plow, the said machine is placed in the furrow thus opened, which is drawn by a horse, also, which follows the plow in the opened furrow, and the lime or manure is poured out of the shoe into the furrow by means of the motion given to the shoe by the pins and wheel B and after being poured out into the furrow the same is covered up in the ground by the said plow, and thus the process is continued. By means of said machine two men and two horses can do the work, in manuring land, of from six to ten hands per day.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The arrangement of hopper A, wheels B B frame 0 O, handles D D, shoe E, handle ofshoe, H, pins in wheel, I) b, and axle-trees G G, as at scribed, for. the purpose set forth.

CALEB B. DAVIS. Witnesses:

D. P. PORTER, J. M. DAVIS. 

